_Illustrations of Welsh History:_--1. _Offer by David, Prince of Wales,
to become a Vassal of the Pope._--2. _Death in the Tower of Griffith ap
Llewellyn, Prince of North Wales._--In Madox's Collections in the
British Museum (Add. MSS. No. 4565., vol. lxxxviii. p. 387.) are the
annexed references to two interesting incidents in the history of Wales,
noticed in a MS. Chronicle of John De Malverne, in the library of Corpus
Christi College, Cambridge. The references are sent for insertion in
"NOTES AND QUERIES," in the hope that some member of the University may
be induced to favour the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES" with the
passages referred to by Madox.
"Per idem tempus David Princeps Norwalliæ ad alas papalis
protectionis confugere proponens, terram suam optulit ei ab ipso
tenere, reddendo inde sibi quingentas marcas, cui perhibetur D.
Papa favorem præbuisse in magnum regni Angliæ præjudicium: novit
enim mundus Principem Walliæ ab antiquo vassallum Regis Angliæ
extitisse. Ex eod. Chron. [MS. Joh. de Malverne, M. 14.] A. Dom.
1244."
"Griff. fil. Lewel. Princeps Norwalliæ, being in the Tower of
London, fell down as he tryed to make his escape out of a window,
and dyed. Ib. ad. Ann. 1244."